Docker named lead editor of Journal of Great Lakes Research

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 23, 2024

Contact: Paula McIntyre, mcintyre@iaglr.org

WINDSOR, ONT — At its annual conference in Windsor today, the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) announced Dr. Margaret Docker as the next lead editor of its Journal of Great Lakes Research.

“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Docker as the upcoming lead editor of the journal," says Jérôme Marty, executive director of IAGLR. "Dr. Docker has been involved with our journal for several years as an associate editor and also brings experience as lead editor with other academic journals. We are looking forward to working with Dr. Docker to advance IAGLR's core values through the journal.”

Docker is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario. Much of her research focuses on sea lamprey in the Laurentian Great Lakes or the use of environmental DNA to monitor fish and other aquatic species in Lake Winnipeg and its watershed.

"I am excited about the opportunity to be lead editor of a journal that serves the collaborative and inclusive community of large lake researchers around the world," Docker says. "Being able to ask authors, reviewers, and associate editors to entrust their work and devote their volunteer labor to a journal that serves the community rather than a for-profit publisher was important to me."

Docker will start in November for a transition phase working with outgoing editors Robert Hecky and Stephanie Guildford and assume the full role in January 2025. Since 2012, Hecky and Guildford have worked tirelessly to broaden the reach of the journal, both internationally and topically. They are noted for cultivating a journal with a community feel while maintaining the robustness of science published.